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The Two Creation Stories: Gen 1:1-24 and Gen 2:4-25

The Two Creation Stories: Gen 1:1-24 and Gen 2:4-25. First Creation Story: Gen 1:1-24. First 3 days God creates the physical world and separates each part in its place. Next 3 days God populates the world with living creatures giving proper roles.

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The Two Creation Stories: Gen 1:1-24 and Gen 2:4-25

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  1. The Two Creation Stories:Gen 1:1-24 and Gen 2:4-25 • First Creation Story: Gen 1:1-24 • First 3 days God creates the physical world and separates each part in its place • Next 3 days God populates the world with living creatures giving proper roles. • Lastly, God creates human beings, male and female, gives them dominion over all • Movement towards the creation of people as the last creative act.

  2. Second Creation Story: Gen 2:4-25 • God begins with the creation of the man. • God builds up a world for his new creature. • God creates one human being, sees he needs companions. • God makes a garden, not enough. • God makes the animals, not enough. • God makes woman from man’s flesh, this was enough. • Symbols from Ancient Near Eastern Myths: • Babylonian symbol of long life, immortality: Tree of life

  3. Sumerian poems of speak of: Paradise garden in the East Eden is near the head of today’s Persian Gulf where the Tigris and Euphrates rivers join 2 other streams to form a single river • Mesopotamian myth speaks of: • Becoming godlike in wisdom after eating food reserved for the gods.

  4. The use of literary forms of that time period was to: • Express the Israelite message. • God begins with the human species. • Creates a world they are to cultivate and tend. • Makes animals for them to rule over. • Establishes marriage and human community of two sexes to complement each other. • The word “Eden” used in scripture: • Refers to the name of a region in southern Mesopotamia • From the Sumerian word “eden” meaning “Fertile Plain” • Understood as “garden of delight” • Greek version is “paradise” or “pleasure park”

  5. Creation of Adam and Eve: “The Lord God formed man out of the clay of the ground and blew into his nostrils the breath of life, and so man became a living being.” Gen 2:7 • God is portrayed as a potter molding man’s body out of clay or the “ground”. There is a play on words in Hebrew here between Adam (man) and Adama (ground). Eve: from the Hebrew word “hawwa” (hay-va) is related to the Hebrew word “Hay” meaning “living”. Eve thus becomes “mother of the living” or the first woman to give life or give birth.

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